Anatomic Pantoum By Peter Meinke

“The Poem”
A Reader’s Response analysis of the poem “Anatomic Pantoum” by Peter Meinke

The poem is more likely about Chemistry. Specifically, it speaks about a nuclear weapon, an atomic bomb. The stanzas talk about the process of how the atomic bomb destroys the things it possesses, but this is only if take it in literal meaning. We have to look further than science, enhancing one’s observation and relating to emotions.
In the first and second stanzas of the poem, it speaks about the chain reaction when an atomic bomb explodes. First, the neutrons will release and split in two new nuclei which will release more neutrons and then again and again with the same process. In the third stanza, explained that the chain reaction on the previous stanzas